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Chicago examiner tuesday Chicago september 5 1911 18 pages tuesday c & pÂ£r<-_j Chicago and vicinity unset ji ~""^ tied weather with showers and warm j__r :> a er tuesday wednesday cloudy and 0-i'k_^s cooler by night brisk southwest j^*f\r winds tuesday shifting to northwest jsÂ£__tfgj_^jl wednesday p range of temperature j j?q highest ~ 74 ffiv^fg^<s lowest 63 ' >, s average 70 vol ix no 221 a m pick out any sec . tion of the city within a short walk of your business or a refreshing car ride or in the suburbs they are offered you in to-day's want ad columns c f1?z?o price one cent fe fc Â»-* resents church tenets pastor resigns rev a b francisco calling swedenborgian doctrines polygamous quits leader talks of case col r williams declares oth ers will follow unless radi cal changes are made cwvincea that the church organization to which he had labored for twenty years â€” as became tolerant of the polygamous doctrines known as the allowableness of n associate wife and permissible con cubinage the rev a b francisco has resigned from the pastorate of the hum boldt park swedenborgian church and has entered a business occupation he read his resignation last sunday from the pulpit of the church and imme diately shut his home and went to spring field to become a lecturer on the ethics of business col rudolph williams a leader in the humboldt p_rk swedenborgian church tld last night at his home in lake view the rev mr francisco's resignation is â– protest against the immoral and abhor rent polygamous doctrines which the re cent general convention of swedenborgians t the hotel la salle refused to con demn why mr francisco resigned what are the specific doctrines to which mr francisco objected he was asked he resented the refusal of the conven tion to condemn the doctrine of asso ciate wives and allowableness of concubi nage " said col williams will there be other resignations from the swedenborgian ministry in Chicago or elsewhere this is not the end by any means said colonel williams kas mr francisco's pulpit been filled no and if substantial people in the congregation can help it the place will never be filled by any preacher who does not formally condemn the academy doc tri-es in delivering his resignation the rev mr francisco said text of the resignation i toleration of the doctrines cf the acad emy by the association and their treatment and Illinois association and their treatment of me anl others who do not tolerate those doctrines and who interpret the teaching of swedenborg relative to life differently from what they do makes impossible for me in fraternalship to serve with thelm for nearly twenty years i have served the new church for years on the plains of texas never with a dollar that belonged to me love being my recompense but low feeing the church in doctrine as it actually _ . i cannot serve it john r saul a representative of the convention was not at home last night but it was said that he would have something to say in reply to colonel williams to 4a girl overboard at sea miss caroline mercer of omaha lost from liner minneapolis new york sept 4 miss caroline mercer daughter of dr nelson mercer of omaha neb has been lost overboard at sea from the liner minneapolis she was on the way to europe with her parents and sister the news was brought here i to-night by the adriatic which received this wireless message we missed caro line mercer if body washes up light brown hair brown eyes five feet six inches 118 pounds clothing marked c m notify w farnhain smith omaha club omaha neb born a flirt she pleads woman arrested on charge of mash ing makes unique defense freeport 111 sept 4 1 was born a flirt judge and i'll be one till i die said miss margaret cannon when arraigned in court to-day ou the charge of mash ing judge clarity seut her to the county borne miss cannon who is forty-seven had been walking the streets for days waving her handkerchief and casting shy glances at men a street car conductor on whose ear she rode for a whole day in order to have an occasional word with him made complaint and the woman was arrested women barbers in luck sisters get legacies of 25,000 each from Chicago uncle omaha neb sept 4 mrs marie gun derson and sadie condon sisters formerly f Chicago but now of omaha were to day notified that they receive legacies of 25,000 each from the estate of matthew patton of Chicago an uncie a omana jrerwspaper which was asked bjl a l hnrley a Chicago attorney to afcjst in locatiug the sisters found tfiemm w rk l 1 as barbers miss condon inimefcitely fcoult work when notified but mrsj*gun mrerson remained at work j â€” poison in communion cup kills domestic prelate to the pope canon of church at aglra hsld on charge of causing death of monsignor contessa special cable to the xanlner rome sept _â€” the rev giuseppe preppnnti canon of the church of santa margherita at agira has been arrested and held on the charge of placing poison in the sacred chalice which caused the death last week of monsignor contessa the domestic prelate to the pope while the monsignor was celebrating mass the priest was officiating in the church and had just placed the chalice to his lips when he tottered and fell on the altar steps with an inarticulate cry an an alysis of the wine in the cup showed an enormous quantity of arsenic the pope has sent monsignor fiandicn bishop of nicosia to agira to conduct a strict investigation into the mattea / col alex f fleet dies head of culver ind military acad emy stricken in atlanta culver ind sept _â€” colonel alex ander p fleet superintendent of the cul ver military academy here died to-day at the home of his son-in-law in atlanta he was 68 years old at the outbreak of the civil war he was commissioned an adjutant-general iu the confederate army and surrendered as a member of wise's brigade at appomatox in 1896 he was appointed superintendent of the culver military academy of culver ind and has been at that post ever since he was superintendent of the missouri military academy from 1890 to 1896 torpedo for air warfare admiral twining invention is adap ted to use on aeroplanes washing-ton sept 4 an aerial tor pedo that can be fired from an aeroplane at any enemy whether in the air ou the water or on land is the latest invention of hear admiral nathan c twining chief of the naval ordnance bureau this tor pedo like the submarine torpedo now in use is self-propelling it is fitted with a percussion fuse that is so sensitive that it will explode upon the slightest contact should the torpedo barely graze an aero plane wing tip it will explode Chicago amazes baron member of german reichstag says city is most interesting baron h underberger-albrecht a mem ber of the german reichstag who is mak ing a tour of the united states was at the blackstone yesterday i find that america is far advanced in many things he said especially in commercial and in dustrial ideas it is a very progressive country and Chicago is one of the most interesting cities i have visited all energy and go-aheadness your bustle here anises bartlett richards dead richest u s cattleman land fraud convict succumbs to operations mayo neb sept 4 bartlett richards known as the richest cattle man in the united states and who was serving a sen tence in the nebraska penitentiary for land frauds died here to-day after two opera tions richards was allowed to leave his prison cell at hastings neb on an order from president Taft to come here for an urgent operation he was convictei of using the public domain for grazing j 65 die in mexican battle special cable to the cxaminsr mexico city sept 4 general za pata commanding 1,100 rebels was de feated by frederlco morales commanding 900 federals last night at chinameca guerrero fifty rebels were killed and 173 wounded fifteen federals were killed and ninety-three wounded general za pata is believed to have been captured as he was badly wounded j r keene operated on london sept 4 a surgical operation was performed successfully to-day upon james r keane the american financier and turfman at the nursing homefi where he has been a patient for some time his physicians stated that his condition following the operation gave promise ot speedy recovery airman falls 100 feet breaks neck mcleod first of aeronaut pro fessors to meet with accident taunted as low flyer ground hugger tries to be lie name no hope for recovery alexander mcleod professor of aviation at the Chicago school of aviation took a fall of nearly 100 feet yesterday while instructing a class at west pullman and suffered a broken neck which the surgeons at the west pullman hospital declare is almost certain to result in his death he is the first instructor in the numer ous schools of the art of flying that have sprung up in america to suffer serious accident under the eyes of his students several of the classe were so shocked by the accident that their resignations will be sent to the school they will find oc cupations which will keep them on the ground mcleod waÃŸ demonstrating the operation of a biplane at the instruction field on central avenue west pullman he has never been a high flyer but was considered reliable falls out of machine at a height of 100 feet he lost control of the biplane he made desperate efforts to volplane to the field but was unsuccess ful about sixty-five feet from the ground he fell from the machine mcleod's drop to the ground was direct and he got the full force of the fall on his neck and shoulders ' the biplane relieved of bis weight came down more slowly and fell near him a battered wreck in this the accident is peculiar for in most of the recent air tragedies the aviator has been crushed under the heavy motor an account of the accident is given by kaid belton a fellow aviator w_o witnessed the fall mcleod went up for a demonstration flight in the presence of a number of stu dents and a crowd of curious spectators * said belton he need not have gone to any great height but he seemed to like flying conditions some of his friends have been joking him because he always kept his machine so near the ground air trough caused accident - at any rate he was up over one hundred feet when the binlane seemed to fall into an air trough it wabbled per ilously and we could see that he was trying to descend at a height of sixty five feet he fell from the steering seat and beat the biplane to the ground he fell with terlffic force and we all thought he had been killed instantly mcleod was hurried to the west pull man hospital during the day the sur geons gave no hope of his recovery last night he began to show renewed strength and the surgeods marveled at his vitali ty still they held out no hope for his recovery mcleod is unmarried and a graduate of the school in which he was an lnsruc tor he has been flying about six weeks and this was his first accident aviator belton fell on the same ground a few weeks ago and was slightly injured russian official is slain assassination believed outcome of killing of von plehve special cable to the examiner nertchinsk asiatic russia sept 4 the governor of the zarantui penal colony where sasoneff the murderer of minister of the interior von plehve committed suicide last fall was assassinated to-day the assassin who gained entrance to the gov ernor's office by presenting a forged card was arrested the unknown man fired two shots both of which took effect to-day's assassination is believed to be connected with the von plehve affair glasgow has great fire one conflagration follows another losses total 3,500,000 specltl cable to the examiner glasgow scotland sept 4 fully 3 500,000 damage was done by two flreg which raged in glasgow last night and to day the more damaging of the two broke out to-day in the warehouse district the flames destroying the historic tontine house and a number of warehouses the firemen were already exhausted when the second conflagration broke out the first fire destroyed the scottish wholesale co operative society's building the ot;s in the first fire was set at 1,000,000 suitor kills an heiress katherine van wyck shot by man who ends own life west hampton beach l 1 sept 4 miss katherine van wyck the eigh teen-year-old daughter of albert van wyck a wealthy man of brooklyn was shot and killed to-night by william childs aged twenty who committed bulcide childs bad asked miss van wyck for her hnnd and had been refused childs lived at quogue l i the van wycks were cottagers at west hampton miss van wyck was the favorite nlete of fornjer mayor robert a van wyck of nwv iftrfc 1 ___. _ i ovington in hearst air race ward buys shooting star sea-to-sea start is monday fowler will be first to begin great transcontinental contest in aeroplane new york sept 4 â€” earle l ovington formally entered the coast to-coast flight contest for the 50,000 prize offered by william randolph hearst as soon as he won the 140-mile cross-country race around new eng land to-day ovington telephoned his intention to the new york american office as soon as he landed near boston he has mailed a formal statement of his entry to-day's race is child's play compared to the sea-to-sea flight said the aviator but i am confident i can get into new york first in spite of the fact that fowler has eight days start i shall leave los angeles sep tember 18 i shall stop in Chicago a southern pacific train will follow me from los angeles ' ' , according to his schedule ovington will fly the 4,500 miles between los angeles and new york city in twenty-two days to make the flight he must cover an average of 2c4 1 _ miles each day in order that he may have no difficulty in obtaining the necessary supplies and may e able to make such repairs as are necessary at an instant's notice he will arrange for a special train which will follow him over the southern pacific from los angeles he intends to fly practically over the same route indicated by phil o parmelee the wright aviator who leaves the southern cali fornia city three days before him â€¢ . c w immy ward the Chicago boy who will fly in the william ran * â€¢ ( dolph hearai 50,000 contest from ocean to ocean was yesterday \ released from his contract with glenn h curtiss he at once cy made arrangements for the purchase of a curtiss biplane in which he will start in the transcontinental flight ward is under contract to fly three days at olean n y and after completing his engagement there will go to hammondsport n y t to supervise the assembling of his aero plane in the curtiss factory ward's backers believe that the ar rangement with curtiss has increased ward's chances tremendously as he has always driven a curtiss machine and there was some doubt as to his ability to master the burgess-wright biplane in which he intended to make the flight in time to start according to his schedule ward canceled the order for the burgess wright machine and also bought his fa mous shooting star biplane from cur tiss the following telegram was received from ward last night i olean n _Â„ sept 4.-mana g lng editor examiner have cancelled order for burgess-wright machine met glenn curtiss here where i fly three days curtiss has released me from contract i bought the shooting star curtiss biplane and will make flight la curtiss airship after completing en gagement here will go to hammonds port to superintend the construction of the biplu'se jimmy ward fowler arrives at coast robert g fowler the first entrant for the 50,000 prize arrived at san fran cisco yesterday phil o taimeiee one of the wright aviators who is fourth entrant started from Chicago for the paclfio coast last ulglrt while his full equipment left the wright factory at darton at the same time william h plans his manager will leave for lob cal p ropers yglfjjfciator to file earle l ovington autoist burned when car crashes another gasoline tank of one machine bursts and soatters blazing oil over occupant of other vehicle henry specht 8143 lincoln avenue was severely burned yesterday when the gaso line tank of an automobile owned by wil liam forkel 4819 wentworth avenue which he was operating exploded following a collision with an automobile owned and driven by l s livingston of blooming ton 111 the accident occurred at east fourteenth btreet and south michigan avenue - liv ingston escaped injury flames attacked foruel's machine and although firemen ar rived it was partly destroyed specht's hands legs and face were badly burned and the harrison street police took him to st luke's hospital when the tank of his machine exploded the burning gasoline was scattered over him and his garments caught fire he jumped out ol the machine and livingston and passers by beat out the flames with their hands new comet plainly seen philadelphia pa sept 4.â€”pro fessor doolittle of the university of penn sylvania observatory says the new cemet discovered by professor brooks of geneva n y is now plainly discernible with a glass and may soon be visible to the naked e>e _ , l theories and facts in murder of chauffeur the theories s that frederick wennerstrom s chauffeur wu the victim of safe ( robbers in whose nefarious plans c he refused to take part \ that the men who killed ) wennerstrom did so on the lonely ) road between desplaines and s cary 111 s that they drove with the i body to the wagon bridge over < fox river near cary and threw ( the body off the bridge ? that the man or men in the } back seat fired bullets into wen jj nerstrom after the one beside him 5 had him stop his car s that the murderers are the < three men alleged to have been c dynamiting safes in wisconsin the known facts s that wennerstrom body was < found sunday afternoon in fox i river a mile from cary 111 i wrapped in a rubber robe and )" bound with copper wire > that the body was weighted s with a brake shoe which did not s hold it down i that wennerstrom left chi < cago wednesday evening and did r not return ) that the murdered man was ; poor and a hard worker and lived j very simply with his wife and ii crippled child 11 that the two shots that killed i j him were fired from behind and 11 struck him in the head i 1 that there was blood on the > bridge showing the spot where s the body had been rolled off into \ the water \ that the machine was backed ( off the bridge and turned in the ? direction of Chicago ) that the machine belonging j to wennerstrom has disappeared chauffeur believed slain by safe dtbanuters woman has description of 3 suspects â– frederick wennerstrom found killed in fox river supposed to have been forced by rob bers to aid their escape woman tells of gang meeting in her cafe attempted robbery of crystal lake postoffice is linked with the recent crime by a restaurant proprietor license tag no 4284 is said to be the victim's automobile which bore body turned at bridge and head ed back for Chicago ac cording to the tracks made hurled into stream &| from center of bridge lonely spot on road is care fully examined by twelve detectives who were de tailed on mysterious casa p hat frederick wennerstrom the chauffeur murdered wednes day night near cary 111 was the victim of safe blowers who made him the innocent helper in their schemes is the verdict of detective working on the case he made his living out of thai car said a brother of wennerstrom _ _^ anna johnson wennerstrom's mother-in-law ' he drove all that handed him the money for it and i believe that some one gave him a good price to drive them and he did not knowing who or what they were describes three suspects the same idea is entertained by most of the twelve detectives investi gating the murder mrs emma gorlich proprietor of a restaurant near the northwestern depot at cystal lake gave an interesting story regarding a group of men who came to her cafe on the afternoon of may 19 there were four of them but she remembered only three distinctly she describee them this way one was large stout forty years old dark and wore a gray bult one was tall athletic thirty-five years old and wore dark clothes one was medium height thirty-five years old and wore dark clothes l the morning after the men gathered for a chat in her cafe mrs gerlich said there was an attempt made to rob the postoffice at crystal lake the city marshal e h wollenberg fired at the men as they were trying to forco an entrance to the building and they escaped in a machine two weeks after the attempted robbery mrs gerlich says a man drove up in front of the restaurant and waited outside as if he expected some one he did not get out of the car and after a time drove away mrs gerlich took a good look at him the town marshal also took the number of the machine which w,as 4284 111 the car is described by mrs gerlich and the marshal as a blue body gray wheels and a touring car as if to refute this however is the evidence of the Illinois automobile directory for 1911 which credits license no 4284 tc n c mckinney of mur dock 111 operating a bulck car at the c h barikow garage 3008 north clark street where wennerstrom kept his car the assertion was made thagtffl the license tag was no 4284 fl switchman hears shots u switchman michael ward in charge of the northwestern switche_b yards north of where the body of wennerstrom was found says that thun^b day between 2 and 4a.m he heard shots fired the sound coming from the mm marshes on the east side of fox river the people living at the arlington heights clubhouse in a location just as near the place heard nothing j wennerstrom according to the detectives was killed some place on th lonely read between desplalnes and cary the machine that bore the body to the river over fox river bridge a mile from cary did not go to cary but re traced its course was backed off the bridge and turned around iu the field and then headed for Chicago from which place it started wednesday after noon if the murder had been committed east or south of cary the officers a declared the body would have been thrown into the desplaines river nefoiv the crimln_ls would have run the chance of taking it all the way to the fcb^^wm river bridge the bridge from which wennerstrom's body was rolled into the fo river is near arlington heights clubhouse and grounds if the shots that struck wennerstrom in the back of the head had been fired anywhere in the vicinity of the club it is more than like if expert evidence is to be believed that the club folks or some one near there would have heard them loneliest spot on road the wagon bridge runs parallel to the northwestern railroad tracks and they are about five feet apart the automobile tracks over the bridge are as plain as if they were drawn there on clean paper the car was un a doubtedly detective halpin declares driven fifty feet from the east ap proach of the bridge to tko center stopped am the body thrown read.^jj it probably was.j with its brakeshoe weight of twenty pounds and lts^j ; , ings of insulated and copper wire thja instead of being driven acnfl wm i the earwas backed off turned^bit in the field where t wssejt thiek anfflthetraeks tight fm unnoticeable and jm v ajimmw !â€¢ s ' a continued on____b_h ( ishe^_a_____f to-day to-morrow and the day after to-day something happens to-morrow you realize that there has been created a want you read the examiner want ad pages and â€” the day after your want is sup plied the wants of a week can be filled in a few short moments by answering the want ads in to day's examiner the examiner accepts ads over the telephone or you can send your ad to the convenient want ad office Chicago examiner want ad office no 9 west madison st just west of state st phone mÂ»in 5000 automatic 44344 1 i

Chicago examiner tuesday Chicago september 5 1911 18 pages tuesday c & pÂ£r a er tuesday wednesday cloudy and 0-i'k_^s cooler by night brisk southwest j^*f\r winds tuesday shifting to northwest jsÂ£__tfgj_^jl wednesday p range of temperature j j?q highest ~ 74 ffiv^fg^, s average 70 vol ix no 221 a m pick out any sec . tion of the city within a short walk of your business or a refreshing car ride or in the suburbs they are offered you in to-day's want ad columns c f1?z?o price one cent fe fc Â»-* resents church tenets pastor resigns rev a b francisco calling swedenborgian doctrines polygamous quits leader talks of case col r williams declares oth ers will follow unless radi cal changes are made cwvincea that the church organization to which he had labored for twenty years â€” as became tolerant of the polygamous doctrines known as the allowableness of n associate wife and permissible con cubinage the rev a b francisco has resigned from the pastorate of the hum boldt park swedenborgian church and has entered a business occupation he read his resignation last sunday from the pulpit of the church and imme diately shut his home and went to spring field to become a lecturer on the ethics of business col rudolph williams a leader in the humboldt p_rk swedenborgian church tld last night at his home in lake view the rev mr francisco's resignation is â– protest against the immoral and abhor rent polygamous doctrines which the re cent general convention of swedenborgians t the hotel la salle refused to con demn why mr francisco resigned what are the specific doctrines to which mr francisco objected he was asked he resented the refusal of the conven tion to condemn the doctrine of asso ciate wives and allowableness of concubi nage " said col williams will there be other resignations from the swedenborgian ministry in Chicago or elsewhere this is not the end by any means said colonel williams kas mr francisco's pulpit been filled no and if substantial people in the congregation can help it the place will never be filled by any preacher who does not formally condemn the academy doc tri-es in delivering his resignation the rev mr francisco said text of the resignation i toleration of the doctrines cf the acad emy by the association and their treatment and Illinois association and their treatment of me anl others who do not tolerate those doctrines and who interpret the teaching of swedenborg relative to life differently from what they do makes impossible for me in fraternalship to serve with thelm for nearly twenty years i have served the new church for years on the plains of texas never with a dollar that belonged to me love being my recompense but low feeing the church in doctrine as it actually _ . i cannot serve it john r saul a representative of the convention was not at home last night but it was said that he would have something to say in reply to colonel williams to 4a girl overboard at sea miss caroline mercer of omaha lost from liner minneapolis new york sept 4 miss caroline mercer daughter of dr nelson mercer of omaha neb has been lost overboard at sea from the liner minneapolis she was on the way to europe with her parents and sister the news was brought here i to-night by the adriatic which received this wireless message we missed caro line mercer if body washes up light brown hair brown eyes five feet six inches 118 pounds clothing marked c m notify w farnhain smith omaha club omaha neb born a flirt she pleads woman arrested on charge of mash ing makes unique defense freeport 111 sept 4 1 was born a flirt judge and i'll be one till i die said miss margaret cannon when arraigned in court to-day ou the charge of mash ing judge clarity seut her to the county borne miss cannon who is forty-seven had been walking the streets for days waving her handkerchief and casting shy glances at men a street car conductor on whose ear she rode for a whole day in order to have an occasional word with him made complaint and the woman was arrested women barbers in luck sisters get legacies of 25,000 each from Chicago uncle omaha neb sept 4 mrs marie gun derson and sadie condon sisters formerly f Chicago but now of omaha were to day notified that they receive legacies of 25,000 each from the estate of matthew patton of Chicago an uncie a omana jrerwspaper which was asked bjl a l hnrley a Chicago attorney to afcjst in locatiug the sisters found tfiemm w rk l 1 as barbers miss condon inimefcitely fcoult work when notified but mrsj*gun mrerson remained at work j â€” poison in communion cup kills domestic prelate to the pope canon of church at aglra hsld on charge of causing death of monsignor contessa special cable to the xanlner rome sept _â€” the rev giuseppe preppnnti canon of the church of santa margherita at agira has been arrested and held on the charge of placing poison in the sacred chalice which caused the death last week of monsignor contessa the domestic prelate to the pope while the monsignor was celebrating mass the priest was officiating in the church and had just placed the chalice to his lips when he tottered and fell on the altar steps with an inarticulate cry an an alysis of the wine in the cup showed an enormous quantity of arsenic the pope has sent monsignor fiandicn bishop of nicosia to agira to conduct a strict investigation into the mattea / col alex f fleet dies head of culver ind military acad emy stricken in atlanta culver ind sept _â€” colonel alex ander p fleet superintendent of the cul ver military academy here died to-day at the home of his son-in-law in atlanta he was 68 years old at the outbreak of the civil war he was commissioned an adjutant-general iu the confederate army and surrendered as a member of wise's brigade at appomatox in 1896 he was appointed superintendent of the culver military academy of culver ind and has been at that post ever since he was superintendent of the missouri military academy from 1890 to 1896 torpedo for air warfare admiral twining invention is adap ted to use on aeroplanes washing-ton sept 4 an aerial tor pedo that can be fired from an aeroplane at any enemy whether in the air ou the water or on land is the latest invention of hear admiral nathan c twining chief of the naval ordnance bureau this tor pedo like the submarine torpedo now in use is self-propelling it is fitted with a percussion fuse that is so sensitive that it will explode upon the slightest contact should the torpedo barely graze an aero plane wing tip it will explode Chicago amazes baron member of german reichstag says city is most interesting baron h underberger-albrecht a mem ber of the german reichstag who is mak ing a tour of the united states was at the blackstone yesterday i find that america is far advanced in many things he said especially in commercial and in dustrial ideas it is a very progressive country and Chicago is one of the most interesting cities i have visited all energy and go-aheadness your bustle here anises bartlett richards dead richest u s cattleman land fraud convict succumbs to operations mayo neb sept 4 bartlett richards known as the richest cattle man in the united states and who was serving a sen tence in the nebraska penitentiary for land frauds died here to-day after two opera tions richards was allowed to leave his prison cell at hastings neb on an order from president Taft to come here for an urgent operation he was convictei of using the public domain for grazing j 65 die in mexican battle special cable to the cxaminsr mexico city sept 4 general za pata commanding 1,100 rebels was de feated by frederlco morales commanding 900 federals last night at chinameca guerrero fifty rebels were killed and 173 wounded fifteen federals were killed and ninety-three wounded general za pata is believed to have been captured as he was badly wounded j r keene operated on london sept 4 a surgical operation was performed successfully to-day upon james r keane the american financier and turfman at the nursing homefi where he has been a patient for some time his physicians stated that his condition following the operation gave promise ot speedy recovery airman falls 100 feet breaks neck mcleod first of aeronaut pro fessors to meet with accident taunted as low flyer ground hugger tries to be lie name no hope for recovery alexander mcleod professor of aviation at the Chicago school of aviation took a fall of nearly 100 feet yesterday while instructing a class at west pullman and suffered a broken neck which the surgeons at the west pullman hospital declare is almost certain to result in his death he is the first instructor in the numer ous schools of the art of flying that have sprung up in america to suffer serious accident under the eyes of his students several of the classe were so shocked by the accident that their resignations will be sent to the school they will find oc cupations which will keep them on the ground mcleod waÃŸ demonstrating the operation of a biplane at the instruction field on central avenue west pullman he has never been a high flyer but was considered reliable falls out of machine at a height of 100 feet he lost control of the biplane he made desperate efforts to volplane to the field but was unsuccess ful about sixty-five feet from the ground he fell from the machine mcleod's drop to the ground was direct and he got the full force of the fall on his neck and shoulders ' the biplane relieved of bis weight came down more slowly and fell near him a battered wreck in this the accident is peculiar for in most of the recent air tragedies the aviator has been crushed under the heavy motor an account of the accident is given by kaid belton a fellow aviator w_o witnessed the fall mcleod went up for a demonstration flight in the presence of a number of stu dents and a crowd of curious spectators * said belton he need not have gone to any great height but he seemed to like flying conditions some of his friends have been joking him because he always kept his machine so near the ground air trough caused accident - at any rate he was up over one hundred feet when the binlane seemed to fall into an air trough it wabbled per ilously and we could see that he was trying to descend at a height of sixty five feet he fell from the steering seat and beat the biplane to the ground he fell with terlffic force and we all thought he had been killed instantly mcleod was hurried to the west pull man hospital during the day the sur geons gave no hope of his recovery last night he began to show renewed strength and the surgeods marveled at his vitali ty still they held out no hope for his recovery mcleod is unmarried and a graduate of the school in which he was an lnsruc tor he has been flying about six weeks and this was his first accident aviator belton fell on the same ground a few weeks ago and was slightly injured russian official is slain assassination believed outcome of killing of von plehve special cable to the examiner nertchinsk asiatic russia sept 4 the governor of the zarantui penal colony where sasoneff the murderer of minister of the interior von plehve committed suicide last fall was assassinated to-day the assassin who gained entrance to the gov ernor's office by presenting a forged card was arrested the unknown man fired two shots both of which took effect to-day's assassination is believed to be connected with the von plehve affair glasgow has great fire one conflagration follows another losses total 3,500,000 specltl cable to the examiner glasgow scotland sept 4 fully 3 500,000 damage was done by two flreg which raged in glasgow last night and to day the more damaging of the two broke out to-day in the warehouse district the flames destroying the historic tontine house and a number of warehouses the firemen were already exhausted when the second conflagration broke out the first fire destroyed the scottish wholesale co operative society's building the ot;s in the first fire was set at 1,000,000 suitor kills an heiress katherine van wyck shot by man who ends own life west hampton beach l 1 sept 4 miss katherine van wyck the eigh teen-year-old daughter of albert van wyck a wealthy man of brooklyn was shot and killed to-night by william childs aged twenty who committed bulcide childs bad asked miss van wyck for her hnnd and had been refused childs lived at quogue l i the van wycks were cottagers at west hampton miss van wyck was the favorite nlete of fornjer mayor robert a van wyck of nwv iftrfc 1 ___. _ i ovington in hearst air race ward buys shooting star sea-to-sea start is monday fowler will be first to begin great transcontinental contest in aeroplane new york sept 4 â€” earle l ovington formally entered the coast to-coast flight contest for the 50,000 prize offered by william randolph hearst as soon as he won the 140-mile cross-country race around new eng land to-day ovington telephoned his intention to the new york american office as soon as he landed near boston he has mailed a formal statement of his entry to-day's race is child's play compared to the sea-to-sea flight said the aviator but i am confident i can get into new york first in spite of the fact that fowler has eight days start i shall leave los angeles sep tember 18 i shall stop in Chicago a southern pacific train will follow me from los angeles ' ' , according to his schedule ovington will fly the 4,500 miles between los angeles and new york city in twenty-two days to make the flight he must cover an average of 2c4 1 _ miles each day in order that he may have no difficulty in obtaining the necessary supplies and may e able to make such repairs as are necessary at an instant's notice he will arrange for a special train which will follow him over the southern pacific from los angeles he intends to fly practically over the same route indicated by phil o parmelee the wright aviator who leaves the southern cali fornia city three days before him â€¢ . c w immy ward the Chicago boy who will fly in the william ran * â€¢ ( dolph hearai 50,000 contest from ocean to ocean was yesterday \ released from his contract with glenn h curtiss he at once cy made arrangements for the purchase of a curtiss biplane in which he will start in the transcontinental flight ward is under contract to fly three days at olean n y and after completing his engagement there will go to hammondsport n y t to supervise the assembling of his aero plane in the curtiss factory ward's backers believe that the ar rangement with curtiss has increased ward's chances tremendously as he has always driven a curtiss machine and there was some doubt as to his ability to master the burgess-wright biplane in which he intended to make the flight in time to start according to his schedule ward canceled the order for the burgess wright machine and also bought his fa mous shooting star biplane from cur tiss the following telegram was received from ward last night i olean n _Â„ sept 4.-mana g lng editor examiner have cancelled order for burgess-wright machine met glenn curtiss here where i fly three days curtiss has released me from contract i bought the shooting star curtiss biplane and will make flight la curtiss airship after completing en gagement here will go to hammonds port to superintend the construction of the biplu'se jimmy ward fowler arrives at coast robert g fowler the first entrant for the 50,000 prize arrived at san fran cisco yesterday phil o taimeiee one of the wright aviators who is fourth entrant started from Chicago for the paclfio coast last ulglrt while his full equipment left the wright factory at darton at the same time william h plans his manager will leave for lob cal p ropers yglfjjfciator to file earle l ovington autoist burned when car crashes another gasoline tank of one machine bursts and soatters blazing oil over occupant of other vehicle henry specht 8143 lincoln avenue was severely burned yesterday when the gaso line tank of an automobile owned by wil liam forkel 4819 wentworth avenue which he was operating exploded following a collision with an automobile owned and driven by l s livingston of blooming ton 111 the accident occurred at east fourteenth btreet and south michigan avenue - liv ingston escaped injury flames attacked foruel's machine and although firemen ar rived it was partly destroyed specht's hands legs and face were badly burned and the harrison street police took him to st luke's hospital when the tank of his machine exploded the burning gasoline was scattered over him and his garments caught fire he jumped out ol the machine and livingston and passers by beat out the flames with their hands new comet plainly seen philadelphia pa sept 4.â€”pro fessor doolittle of the university of penn sylvania observatory says the new cemet discovered by professor brooks of geneva n y is now plainly discernible with a glass and may soon be visible to the naked e>e _ , l theories and facts in murder of chauffeur the theories s that frederick wennerstrom s chauffeur wu the victim of safe ( robbers in whose nefarious plans c he refused to take part \ that the men who killed ) wennerstrom did so on the lonely ) road between desplaines and s cary 111 s that they drove with the i body to the wagon bridge over < fox river near cary and threw ( the body off the bridge ? that the man or men in the } back seat fired bullets into wen jj nerstrom after the one beside him 5 had him stop his car s that the murderers are the < three men alleged to have been c dynamiting safes in wisconsin the known facts s that wennerstrom body was < found sunday afternoon in fox i river a mile from cary 111 i wrapped in a rubber robe and )" bound with copper wire > that the body was weighted s with a brake shoe which did not s hold it down i that wennerstrom left chi < cago wednesday evening and did r not return ) that the murdered man was ; poor and a hard worker and lived j very simply with his wife and ii crippled child 11 that the two shots that killed i j him were fired from behind and 11 struck him in the head i 1 that there was blood on the > bridge showing the spot where s the body had been rolled off into \ the water \ that the machine was backed ( off the bridge and turned in the ? direction of Chicago ) that the machine belonging j to wennerstrom has disappeared chauffeur believed slain by safe dtbanuters woman has description of 3 suspects â– frederick wennerstrom found killed in fox river supposed to have been forced by rob bers to aid their escape woman tells of gang meeting in her cafe attempted robbery of crystal lake postoffice is linked with the recent crime by a restaurant proprietor license tag no 4284 is said to be the victim's automobile which bore body turned at bridge and head ed back for Chicago ac cording to the tracks made hurled into stream &| from center of bridge lonely spot on road is care fully examined by twelve detectives who were de tailed on mysterious casa p hat frederick wennerstrom the chauffeur murdered wednes day night near cary 111 was the victim of safe blowers who made him the innocent helper in their schemes is the verdict of detective working on the case he made his living out of thai car said a brother of wennerstrom _ _^ anna johnson wennerstrom's mother-in-law ' he drove all that handed him the money for it and i believe that some one gave him a good price to drive them and he did not knowing who or what they were describes three suspects the same idea is entertained by most of the twelve detectives investi gating the murder mrs emma gorlich proprietor of a restaurant near the northwestern depot at cystal lake gave an interesting story regarding a group of men who came to her cafe on the afternoon of may 19 there were four of them but she remembered only three distinctly she describee them this way one was large stout forty years old dark and wore a gray bult one was tall athletic thirty-five years old and wore dark clothes one was medium height thirty-five years old and wore dark clothes l the morning after the men gathered for a chat in her cafe mrs gerlich said there was an attempt made to rob the postoffice at crystal lake the city marshal e h wollenberg fired at the men as they were trying to forco an entrance to the building and they escaped in a machine two weeks after the attempted robbery mrs gerlich says a man drove up in front of the restaurant and waited outside as if he expected some one he did not get out of the car and after a time drove away mrs gerlich took a good look at him the town marshal also took the number of the machine which w,as 4284 111 the car is described by mrs gerlich and the marshal as a blue body gray wheels and a touring car as if to refute this however is the evidence of the Illinois automobile directory for 1911 which credits license no 4284 tc n c mckinney of mur dock 111 operating a bulck car at the c h barikow garage 3008 north clark street where wennerstrom kept his car the assertion was made thagtffl the license tag was no 4284 fl switchman hears shots u switchman michael ward in charge of the northwestern switche_b yards north of where the body of wennerstrom was found says that thun^b day between 2 and 4a.m he heard shots fired the sound coming from the mm marshes on the east side of fox river the people living at the arlington heights clubhouse in a location just as near the place heard nothing j wennerstrom according to the detectives was killed some place on th lonely read between desplalnes and cary the machine that bore the body to the river over fox river bridge a mile from cary did not go to cary but re traced its course was backed off the bridge and turned around iu the field and then headed for Chicago from which place it started wednesday after noon if the murder had been committed east or south of cary the officers a declared the body would have been thrown into the desplaines river nefoiv the crimln_ls would have run the chance of taking it all the way to the fcb^^wm river bridge the bridge from which wennerstrom's body was rolled into the fo river is near arlington heights clubhouse and grounds if the shots that struck wennerstrom in the back of the head had been fired anywhere in the vicinity of the club it is more than like if expert evidence is to be believed that the club folks or some one near there would have heard them loneliest spot on road the wagon bridge runs parallel to the northwestern railroad tracks and they are about five feet apart the automobile tracks over the bridge are as plain as if they were drawn there on clean paper the car was un a doubtedly detective halpin declares driven fifty feet from the east ap proach of the bridge to tko center stopped am the body thrown read.^jj it probably was.j with its brakeshoe weight of twenty pounds and lts^j ; , ings of insulated and copper wire thja instead of being driven acnfl wm i the earwas backed off turned^bit in the field where t wssejt thiek anfflthetraeks tight fm 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